Kiwi Nomad

Is this a Stuff poll? It would appear few Maori bother with the site…

We had a Nan and Pop a couple of houses down, and an Aunty and Uncle just up the hill. Same kind of story.

I don’t have an extra $500 a year in my Super budget.

I’m going to be paying an extra $500 a year for my modern reasonably efficient Corolla. There’ll be a huge voter backlash as people realise this.

In fact I have gone and made a pre-emptive block. I am not certain he is the party he claims. Seems more like a Troll to me.

Would have been a block from me too

Oh what a keepsake Cathy!!

We were very fortunate to have an excellent information evening on Friday about Maori wards- superb speakers.

I live in Palmy but have never been to Munch- but the person from there has recently walked the Camino, which I walked quite some years back- so I need to go in to say Hello to her!

I spotted this in Palmerston North just now and was quite pleased

We have a beautiful ‘fantail’ bird here. Often follows when you are walking in our ‘bush’ - but always because it catches insects etc on the wing, and we humans stir them up.

I meant to tag you in but forgot, but you saw it anyway!

It might be cold and grey but this magnolia in the Esplanade is looking beautiful.

I don’t think they’re alone. I’ve been to an open home where it turned out home was under contract but conditional. Palmy is at least smaller to travel across.

What do they eat? Have you just stirred up insects for them?

Yellowish spots on the car. Yellow deposits near a few dried up puddles. Pine pollen season. Explains the nose discomfort.

In fact I see there are several writing ones on that day, but that is the one that I think will be of most use to our members.

Creating an Ancestor Sketch - Legacy Family Tree Webinars Face it: most genealogists never get around to publishing that family history book based on their genealogy research. How about a different approach: producing...

And here is another one on my radar- in keeping with our current library workshops- familytreewebinars.com/webinar/crea... Plus there is a Janet Few one. @mghistorical.com

Using Google Earth Web to Tell Your Family History Migration Stories - Legacy Family Tree Webinars Learn how to use the free Google Earth Web platform to create and share engaging, interactive, multimedia stories that follow the footsteps of your ancestors....

@cathyclarke77.bsky.social This Google Earth webinar looks interesting. familytreewebinars.com?p=53912

I spy you there in a photo Cuz! @mghistorical.com

We had a wonderful meeting about Māori wards here in Palmy last night. Superb speakers and great audience. I hadn’t realised what under-representation of Māori there was around the country before wards were introduced. Unforgivable that ‘majority’ aka white rule might destroy them.

Toitū Te Tiriti billboard featuring Ellen Tamati wearing a big smile Billboard says: MY MANA MY VOICE MY MANDATE VOTE YES TO MĀORI WARDS

Toitū Te Tiriti billboard featuring Ellen Tamati visible from Parliament Billboard says: MY MANA MY VOICE MY MANDATE VOTE YES TO MĀORI WARDS

@taniawaikatolawyer.bsky.social has posted these on Facebook so I'm sharing the joy here because we all felt Ellen Tamati's mamae.
All of the mana, all of the time.✊✌️🥰
#ToitūTeTiriti
#OneTermGovernment
#nzpol

These particular parish records when written by a particular parish priest are wonderful for a genealogist. Baby and both parents named, plus the fathers of each of the parents.

I sort books for Red Cross. We have an old books section. I was surprised to find how few can read Roman numerals, so I tend to get asked about them when others are unsure.

I have actually used mine- in genealogy. Some of the Catholic parish registers are written in Latin. It really helped me work out more about my family line in Ticino especially. This is the baptism of my grt-grt-grandfather in 1835 :-)

One of my nieces was dyslexic. Hated high school and left the day she turned 16. Got pregnant at 17 and ended up at teen parent school. This was fantastic for her. The current flexibility of NCEA meant she could learn in a way suited to her. Left with NCEA Level 3. Finally Knew she wasn’t stupid.

Things that can manipulate elections according to ACT: Freebies at voting stations.
Things that cannot manipulate elections according to ACT: Removing voting rights, spreading misinformation, the Atlas Network, sweetheart electorate deals with the Nats, massive donations from the ruling classes.

John Key as an Education Thought Leader. As a retired teacher just let me quietly 🤮in the corner.

#NZpol 🎯💯

Could farming native wildlife boost numbers? New research looks at how commercialisation might help That's the focus of a recent research paper that looked at how commercialising native species might help with conservation.

Worth noting this is not a "research paper": it's an unpublished, un-peer-reviewed university research project—essentially a 10K word essay—on liberal economics written for a Master's degree in political science. No actual conservation biologists involved. The author is now a policy advisor for ACT.